I think we only had 6 or 7 wides in the game, must be our lowest in a while, though a couple of them were fairly poor particularly in the second half. The wides killed us vs Tyrone and Derry, we created plenty of chances to win both those games and if we’re honest there wasn’t much difference in the overall performance levels other than that. Hopefully this win gives the team some much needed confidence, this championship is wide open and we have the ability to beat anyone on our day, if we take our chances.
We only tried the high ball on top of the goalkeeper once, an excellent ball from grugan in the second half. Murnin & jarly og were both in and amongst to fight for it, two big lads who can cause a bit of bother in there. We really need to try that tactic a bit more often than we do. If we scored a goal at any point yesterday I don’t think Galway were ever going to catch us, and I had the same feeling vs Derry.
It would be nice to be the one holding the lead, rather than chasing it down, for once.
Crealy is incredibly important to the Armagh set up, we need him to allow the forwards to press the kickout. Even though Galway were winning a lot of the breaks, they clearly didn’t want to be going long as often as they did.
I really do wonder what Walsh is at & how Joyce is playing him. It seems like he’s trying to play last years AI final every game, dropping deep and running at his man. It worked in that game because he was left 1v1, but it’s so easy to stop if the defence has a player waiting on his cut inside. I think he only got one off when he cut inside Forker in the first half. If Geezer had a player like that underperform so regularly he’d be crucified.
